MUSLIM clerics would be subject to a strict new code of behaviour under a plan being devised by Islamic leaders in Australia to rein in the inflammatory language of some extremist imams.

The head of John Howard's Muslim Advisory Council, Ameer Ali, told The Australian yesterday that guidelines to control religious leaders would be thrashed out at a special meeting next month.
"At the moment we have no control over these imams, we don't know what the credentials of these imams are, what their qualifications are - everybody gives sermons," said Dr Ali, president of the Australian Federation of Islamic Councils. "So we want to have some sort of order in this chaos."

Under the proposal, first discussed at a meeting of Muslim leaders in August, a new national board of imams would set guidelines for religious figures and monitor their sermons.

Dr Ali said the board of imams would set "rules and regulations about sermons and who gives the sermons".

The idea is believed to have the backing of many moderate Muslim leaders, but it has infuriated firebrand Melbourne cleric Sheik Mohammed Omran.

"They don't have authority, they don't have the power, they don't have any licence to talk about that," he said last night.
Dr Ali's comments come a day after the defiant Sheik Omran told The Australian the Howard Government should be held partly responsible for demonising Muslims and promoting terrorism.

Sheik Omran, who was not invited to the Prime Minister's summit of moderate Islamic leaders earlier this year, said he was no more radical than many other imams in Australia, but accused other clerics of being too afraid to speak their mind.

But Dr Ali, spokesman for the Muslim Reference Group set up by the Howard Government to act as a go-between for the community and Canberra, said some clerics, including Sheik Omran, required "re-education" about their religion and advice on how to deliver sermons without encouraging "violence" or inciting young Muslims to extremism.

"These (clerics) need some re-education about their own religion," Dr Ali said. "Not only in their subject matter, but how to communicate with youngsters; the language they use.

"In these sermons, these imams are not questioned. They have the monopoly, they say whatever they like and they get out of it."

While not singling out Sheik Omran, head of the Melbourne-based Ahlus Sunnah Wal-Jamaah Association, Dr Ali yesterday raised the prospect of censoring clerics.

"If, in the interest of the wider community, certain language and the way of speaking should be censored, you should do that," he said.

But Dr Ali said of Sheik Omran: "I don't think he directly promotes terrorism in this country." He said Sheik Omran and other clerics should be more "guarded" in their language.

"Young people are gullible. They are ready to listen to people who have radical views and I suppose Sheik Omran in his sermons has used that language and wants that support."

Dr Ali also criticised Sheik Faiz Mohamad, from Global Islamic Youth Centre in Sydney, for a lecture he delivered to a crowd of more than 1000 people in March, in which he said female rape victims had only themselves to "blame".

"There's an imam in Sydney ... who made a statement that there are girls in this country that deserve to be raped - that's all rubbish," Dr Ali said.

Sheik Faiz reportedly told public followers at a public meeting in Bankstown: "A victim of rape every minute somewhere in the world. Why? No one to blame but herself. She displayed her beauty to the entire world.

because we all once actually believed our government was doing
something good for us. and while we were laying back leaving
everything up to them , they bacame corrupt and bought into
the NWO.

now not only is our beautiful homeland infected by them but
our people die because of their crime and pay taxes for their
welfare, all whilst our numbers begin to dwindle and theirs rise
due mainly to their high birth rate and to top it off our government
is going to bring in more of them.

and we dont do anything about it because we've been diluted among
the races so much so that we dont know how to stick together and there-
fore dont know how to bring the fight to those who cripple us.

and finally, where our population has dropped out of the christian circle
they have the same religion they have always had that gives them strength.
a religion that tells them that the world was created for muslims, a religion that
tells them to fight. whereas ours tells us to be pacifists and also their leaders
tell their people that one day islam will rule supreme over all.
i wonder if they realise that if they do rule supreme in australia its because
the jews allowed them to?